Reveals a distinctly British obsession with royalty and propriety that doesn’t always translate with the same reverence abroad. But the more important story is the one about discrimination and misinformation; that fact can be twisted into fiction

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 29, 2023

A true story, potentially inspirational but mostly just peculiar.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2023

The viewer will recognize a classic David vs. Goliath tale at the heart of The Lost King, which is what makes it such a good story.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 27, 2023

It's sweet and nice, but it didn't need the extra stuff.

| Mar 25, 2023

Stephen Frears gives us something really comforting, sweet, solid and sincere.

| Mar 25, 2023

As it ticks along from one small but crucial development to another, this climax is far more exciting than any part of any superhero movie I’ve seen in recent months.

| Mar 24, 2023

The Lost King often seems distinctly underpowered. But it has one big thing in its favor: Sally Hawkins’ performance as Langley. She’s perfectly cast, which, as a general rule, does not always translate into a perfect performance. Not so here.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 24, 2023

'The Lost King' is a thoroughly entertaining and enlightening film for grownups, and well worth seeing

| Mar 24, 2023

[Hawkins] radiates a brazen confidence that shines through any surface impression of timidity.

| Mar 24, 2023

With Sally Hawkins playing Langley as a woman undeterred by pompous academics and condescending naysayers, The Lost King makes for a charmingly droll tale of long-ago and not-so-long-ago reappraisal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2023

It’s comfort-food cinema but also appreciably more, since Hawkins invests Langley with deep reserves of doubt, dreaming, and resolve.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 24, 2023

The fact that The Lost King never quite reconciles this tension between striving for noble recognition and the fallacy of divine majesty feels like an implicit damnation of both.

| Mar 24, 2023

"The Lost King" gets sidetracked. Still, it's a great story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2023

Hawkins evokes a certain British contrariness, a polite determination to do the right thing, and a quiet indignation when the same is not done for her.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 23, 2023

It’s a tale made for the movies, and a character perfectly suited to the great Hawkins, who specializes in wispy-voiced women with cores of steel.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 23, 2023

The film, a shabby account of the story behind the story, muddles its themes and only superficially conveys the importance of the historical insights it contains.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 23, 2023

Sally Hawkins is a gift, to directors and audiences alike.

| Mar 23, 2023

Its pleasures and compensations lie not in plotty complications or some third-act twist, but in the humanity that suffuses an enterprise that is borne of obsession but achieves a form of transcendence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 22, 2023

Despite its flaws in emphasis, “The Lost King” has a story that was just impossible to kill.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 20, 2023

Sally Hawkins’ compassionate rendering of Philippa rounds out some traits that could have come off as far more self-righteous and off-putting.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 2, 2023